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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived by an arable enclosure, normally adjoining a house, Middle English croft. There are several places in England named with this word (Old English croft), and the surname may equally be a habitational name from any of them.
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of Kraft.

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